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budget so they can continue to survive. i want tm to feel free from their pain. >> i'm so happy. thank you. >> i want them to feel the compassion that we're trying to share with them, to wrap our arms around them and say, come on, i have a little extra strength i want to share with you, let's get you back on your feet. right now, on cnn, child sex and a college football coach, a well known at that accuseaccuse >> they say this charity was a point for him to get access to kids. >> it doesn't end with jerry sandusky. more penn state university big wigs are facing charges. plus, animals gone wild. >> i've got a long rifle with me. >> new graphic details on those exotic animals that got loose in ohio and why police were forced to shoot to kill.
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plus, chickenpox, lollipops? parents, buying candy containing the virus online for their kids. why? and the super nanny, jo frost. she's hot over the judge caught on tape beating his daughter. >> this is abuse and we have to open our eyes up about it and do something about it. >> that's just the beginning of her rant. it's all right here right now on cnn. good evening, everyone, i'm don lemon. on a huge saturday for college football, shocking allegations to report of sexual child abuse against a former coach for the revered penn state nittany lions and a pair of university big wigs are accused of covering it up. you may not know his face, but if you're a college football fan, you know his name. jerry sandusky. penn state's former coordinator led away in handcuffs.
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in 1997 he found a charitable organization for at risk children called second mile. he's accused of committing sexual assaults or advances on eight young men he met in the program between 1994 and 2009. in all, he faces 40 counts. sandusky's attorney says he knew the arrest was coming. >> he's been aware of these allegations now for over three years. he came back to state college voluntarily last night. the other hand, i've seen counts in cases like this where there are allegations of child abuse that involved hundreds of counts. so 40 actually in terms of perspective, in terms of the nature of the case and the allegations, it doesn't surprise me. >> sandusky is currently out on $100,000 bail. also involved in this case, penn state's athletic director timothy curley and gary schultz, the university senior vice president for finance and
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business. both are charged with perjury and failing to report an investigation into the allegations. pennsylvania's attorney general linda kelly made this statement. "this is a case about a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys and also a case about high ranking university officials who allegedly failed to report the sexual assault of a young boy after the information was brought to their attention and later made false statements to a grand jury that was investigating a series of assaults on young boys." and penn state's president graham spaniar released a statement reading in part "the allegations about a former coach are troubling. it's appropriate they be investigated thoroughly. protecting children requires the utmost vigilance. tim curley and gary schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion. i am confident this record will show these charges are groundless and that they
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conducted themselves professionally and appropriately." penn state's head football coach joe paterno is not facing any charges. the attorney general says paterno did ask tim curley about one of the incidents involving sandusky in 2002. the hacking group anonymous now says it will not name members of mexico's notorious drug cartel known as the zetas. hackers threatened to release the cartel members' names in retaliation for one of its members being kid napped. on friday, the group said the kidnapping victim had been released, bruise d but alive. cnn can't confirm if there was a kidnapping victim or if the person had been freed. unanimous members who wear masks are better known for hacking into government and banking computers and identifies itself with the occupy movement. now, we go to the trial of
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michael jackson's doctor in los angeles. jurors are taking the weekend off as they deliberate the fate of dr. conrad murray who's accused of involuntary manslaughter in jackson's death. in the center of the case is propofol. jean casarez recently spoke with jackson's former dermatologist. what he had to say was shocking. jean joins us from phone by los angeles. jean, you've been covering this trial from the very beginning. what did dr. arnold clienteklei you? >> i went over to dr. klein's house this afternoon. i spoke to him several hours ago. he definitely admits to the demerol injections. he was in the midst of rebuilding michael jackson's face, that michael wanted to be the best he could be. he was a perfectionist. he knew this tour was coming up. step by step he was rebuilding it. it took time and it was very, very painful. he says the evidence that was brought before the court and before the jury of all the
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records of all the demerol shots were not his in entirety because he was out of the country the entire month of may. there were some records that three days in a row he would get upwards of 900 milligrams in 3 days. >> that's not true. it was not 900 milligrams in 3 days. not that i gave him. >> i'm not saying you. i'm saying the records. >> one day in may, i gave him medicine. the rest of the times in may he got medicine from different doctors. >> so he's saying that during the month of may when at one point three days in a row he got 300 milligrams which would be 900 milligrams of demerol. dr. klein said he was in paris, that the other doctors that were independent but they worked inside his office must have given michael that demerol then when he got back in the office in june, you saw it go back down
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to 100 milligrams. don, what he's saying is he believes the defense is trying to target him because those were not all of this injections. he believes that he's been a target of this entire trial. and why? he says, don, because he's different. and he says when people are different, they become targets. he aligns himself with galileo and also michael jackson, himself, saying look a the child molestation trial. jackson was targeted just because he's a little different. don, i've reached out to ed chernoff, lead counsel for the defense to get their take on all of this and have not heard back from them yet. >> jean, michael jackson was addicted to demerol and other drugs and also that he administered the fatal dose of propofol, itself. that was at the crux of the defense's case. what is this interview? it's interesting he says this to you. do you think this will have an effect on the defense? >> the point is probably not who
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administered the propofol. the defense was trying to make the point the demerol was given to michael jackson which produced side effects which although were not the cause of death built up in his system. dr. klein believes the prior trial tried to make him a target, a scapegoat. so dr. conrad murray will not take the brunt is what to due to him. he thinks it so horrendous he was given propofol in a bedroom such as that. he told me that three different times he tried to intervene because he said michael jackson was totally addicted to propofol. he said he chartered a jet to las vegas when he knew michael jackson was having propofol. he went to the mirage hotel, kicked the doctor out who was in the midst of administering propofol to michael jackson. he said he flew to hawaii and slept on the floor of the hotel room with his own nurse because he didn't want michael to have propofol and kicked the plastic sur
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surgeon out that was giving him propofol and another time in new york. it was fascinating to listen to him, to get to know him a little bit. he's a very down to earth doctor. and very kind person. >> and i should note, this is all your interview. this has not been presented into evidence during the trial. they rested now and the deliberations are going on. it should not effect the jury. the jury is not supposed to be watching the news coverage. jean casarez, great interview. thank you for joining us tonight. let's go to occupy wall street and those in the occupy wall street movement will tell you it is no true leaders. former new york mayor rudy giuliani says he knows who's responsible. president barack obama. that's what he says. giuliani says the president is inspiring the movement by fostering class warfare and described the economic policy as redistribute the wealth which he sees as a key message of the dock occupy movement. coming up later on on cnn,
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cnn goes in-depth and follows the occupy movement. we'll hear from reporter who spent 24 hours in its birthplace, new york's zuccotti park. imagine coming face to face with lions and tigers. >> a male called in that advised approximately 25 minutes ago, about a hundred yards from 70 headed toward south -- he saw a large black bear. >> coming face to face with lions and tigers is exactly what happened when the 50 exotic animals got loose in ohio. we have brand new video and new details from authorities about what exactly happened when they had to shoot to kill. the star of the hit show "super nanny" is heated tonight all over this texas judge who was caught on tape beating his daughter with a leather belt. >> we're in the 21st century, don, this is not the 16th. we're aware of what the damages are, how it breaks down relationships. have you seen this crazy
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somewhere else. >> there are still three lions running loose. >> i hear you shooting down there. be careful toward the house. >> a male called in, advising me 25 minutes ago, 100 yards from 70 headed toward -- he saw a large black bear. >> an official report on the incident says at times the animals were just a few feet away from police officers. one sergeant reported spotting a white tiger apparently eating the body of its deceased owner. all the animals were killed. a viral video set off a nationwide debate this week. when does a parent's discipline turn into child abuse? the footage that triggered it shows a texas family court judge beating his 16-year-old daughter with a leather strap. a warning, the clip is graphic and it's disturbing. >> bend over the bed. bend over the bed. >> stop. stop. stop.
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>> parenting experts are in an uproar. among them, the former star of the "super nanny" jo frost has dedicated her life to helping to raise other people's kids. and she says the judge's methods in the video constitute child abuse. >> let's not justify this behavior. there are alternatives of discipline in a child that allows you to have a healthy relationship with your children. trust for you to be able to build your family dynamic in a way that's healthy and functional. this is not functional. this is people calling in, going on twitter and justifying what we know as abuse. we're living in the 21st century, don, this is not the 16th century. >> is there any instarnnce, any instance where corporal punishment is acceptable? >> i don't think so at all. i have clearly shown certainly in america for the last eight years, where families who have been raised to think that corporal punishment is fine have
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asked me to come into their homes and recognized parents have a choice in choosing alternative discipline that allows them to grow with their family and to bond. it's not acceptable by any means at all. >> okay. people know you as the problem solver who has entered the homes of hundreds of families and turned things around. possibly thousands of families. if you were in this home, what would you have done? >> i think the most important thing to do here is to understand that families need to be very clear in their communications with rules and expectations and understand when we're dealing with 16-year-olds, it's about meeting those expectations and understanding we can take away their privileges when they've broken those rules. >> when you see the full seven minutes of the video, the father is definitely very stern, scary to a lot of people. he is cursing and putting his teenage daughter down as he puts her down. i want to you take a look at the clip and how he views what he
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did seven years ago when the footage was shot. >> in my mind i haven't done anything wrong at other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing. i did lose my temper. i since apologized. >> he doesn't have remorse. he has apologized. how do children, especially teens, respond to this type of parenting? this severe scolding and a parent who downplays it? >> don, he didn't apologize. he didn't apologize. he justified what he did. that's what he did. he knows, he knows now that there are certainly other ways in how he could have done things better. that's the point here, that america needs to recognize that. as a spokesperson of the american association prevention of cruelty to children, when we know addiction, violent, aggression, bullying, comes from families who do not break this mold, this is what we're going to see. it's not just about laying down rules and expectations, but about how you nurture your
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relationship and build trust with your children and validating their opinions. >> jo frost is a spokesperson for the american society for the prevention of cruelty to children. which reports last year more than 1,700 kids died from abuse. just friday, police in indiana arrested this father on murder charges. investigators say terry sturgess bound his 10-year-old son with duct tape and beat him to death. a florida woman says she's grateful to be alive after a helicopter crashed into her house. the chopper went down today in west palm beach, florida, hitting the woman's roof and car. a second home was also damaged. amazingly the pilot and the passenger only suffered minor injuries. an investigation is now under way. herman cain wraps up a week he'd probably like to forget. >> i don't know who's in charge of his rapid response team. it might be the same people who ran charlie sheen's management seminar. it might be lindsay lohan's people. >> more from my conversation
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tonight the debate fireworks were limited to two republican presidential hopefuls down in texas. newt gingrich is enjoying a recent upswing in the polls and herman cain, the virtual front running coming off a tough week with past allegations of sexual misconduct coming back to haunt him. it wasn't what happened during
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the debate that has people talking but what happened immediately after. cnn's political reporter shannon travis was there for the whole thing. shannon, update us. what happened? >> reporter: well, don, it's clear that after a week of questions and claims surrounding herman cain, details and denials his campaign are determined to move on. as you just mentioned, the debate itself was much about entitlement spending but what happened after the debate at a press conference featuring mr. cain. things got a little bit testy. mr. cain was asked questions about the substance of the debate. when it turned to the natures of the allegations against him that he's denied, he got really testy. take a listen and look at what happened moments ago. >> if you all listen, if you all just listen for 30 seconds, i will explain this one time. >> could you sit -- >> it's time for us to trade places, everybody, so mr. cain -- it's time for us to
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change places. >> you see what i mean? i was going to do something my staff told me not to do and try to respond, okay? what i'm saying is this -- we are -- we are getting back on message -- >> thank you, mr. cain. >> -- end of story. back on message. read all of the other accounts. read all of the other accounts. everything has been answered. end of story. we're getting back on message. okay? >> reporter: and, don, there was more. herman cain was asked by reporters, mr. cain, you're the presidential front-runner in many polls, are you simply not going to answer anymore questions from reporters or specifically on this topic? take a listen at another thing that happened at that press conference when he basically scolded journalists, scolded journalists essentially saying, wro you know what, you're not doing your jobs. >> coming up within the next several weeks. >> excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, last question, please. >> mr. cain, one of the women
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who filed a sexual harassment -- >> don't even go there. >> can i ask my question? >> no -- >> guys, no gossip. >> can i ask a good question? >> where's my chief of staff? >> i'm right here. >> please send him the journalistic code of ethics. >> will do. >> all right? who has -- you want to ask another good question? >> reporter: a journalistic code of ethics, basically saying that journalists are not following the code of their craft. it was something he echoed in the debate, itself, where at the end of it, don, he basically said one of the biggest surprises he learned in running for president, that journalists essentially make things up out of whole cloth. don? >> shannon, you'd think if someone gets to this position, they would understand how the media works. does herman cain really think he's going to get reporters to stop asking him questions because he simply says so? it just doesn't work that way.
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>> reporter: well, the herman cain campaign, they feel that the questions have been unfairly focused on the allegations and not on their claims to beat them back. the herman cain campaign also is seeing a lot of conservative support. they've raised a lot of money in the past few days since the allegations came to light. a lot of conservativeses i've spoken with said this is all just gossip. the organizers of the event, one of the reasons they didn't want this brought up is because the organizers, themselves, thought this was all too much about nothing. the herman cain campaign on one hand feels they've gotten a bad rap but on the other hand knows how this plays well with their conservative supporters, don? >> yeah. all right. shannon, thank you very much. appreciate. good report. good reporting tonight. it's going to continue to go on and on and on. cain may not have wanted to talk about the allegations of sexual misconduct. it was clearly the biggest political story of last week. i want you to listen to how it
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evolved in the days after the allegations resurfaced. >> if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am not -- i wasn't even aware of it. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i was aware that an agreement was reached. the word settlement versus the word agreement, you know, i'm not sure what they called it. and, yes, there was some sort of settlement, a termination, and i don't even know what the contents of that was. >> i was talking about cain's slow recall earlier with comedian will durst. take a listen to this now. will, i mean, most people were scratching their heads. it seems like his memory is slowly being revived, doesn't it? >> well, it harkins back to actually bill clinton. it depends what the definition of is is. it depends on what the definition of agreement or settlement is. and his story, i mean, his story has changed more often than mitt
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romney's policies. >> all right, will. listen to cain explaining the incident with the first accuser that he acknowledged. listen to this. >> once i referenced th ed thiss height and i was standing near her and did this saying, you're the same height as my wife. my wife is 5 feet tall. she comes up to my chin. this lady is 5 feet tall and she comes up to my chin. obviously she thought that that was too close for comfort. >> i don't know what the coming up to the chin has to do with anything. it's kind of -- the whole thing is, you know, what it boils down to, mr. lemon, is he said/she said, he said/she said/she said -- did i say cheese head? no. go pack. >> he held a news conference. when i saw this and i said, did
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he really think this was going to work? he had a press conference at a medical center last week and he said -- i'll let him say and and we'll talk about it. >> i'm here with these doctors and that's what i'm going to talk about. so don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about. okay? don't even bother. >> are you concerned about the fact that these women do want -- >> what did i say? >> are you concerned about -- >> excuse me. excuse me. >> step aside, please. >> what part of no don't these people understand? >> all right, will, come on, did he really think he was going to face a bunch of reporters and not get questions about that? >> i totally agree. i don't know who's in charge of his rapid response team. it might be the same people who ran charlie sheen's management seminar. it might be lindsay lohan's people. >> political satirist will durst. funny guy.
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hopefully he'll be back with us soon on cnn. former olympian and boxing champ smoking joe frazier is in for the battle of his life. he's in hospice right now with liver cancer. the details are straight ahead. the tooth of beatles legend john lennon is up for auction. yes, i said the tooth is for sale. that story two minutes away. the employee of the month is...
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boxing legend joe frazier is in a philadelphia hospice seriously ill with liver cancer. the former heavyweight champ whereon was diagnosed with the disease several weeks ago. nicknamed smokin' joe, he took on the biggest names in boxing including muhammad ali and george foreman. nba players and owners are trying to salvage part of the pro basketball season, meeting right now with the federal mediator. the two sides are reportedly $100 million apart over how to split league revenues. hall of famer, now team owner, michael jordan has joined the talks. how much is a single rotten tooth worth? depends on who the tooth belonged to. one of john molars with a bonus cavities was sold at an auction for $31,000. the buyer, a dentist, who's written a book on celebrity teeth. oh, boy. well, it may seem the occupy
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wall street demonstrators are getting more attention for their confrontations with police than their anger against corporations. about 50 more people were arrested today in new york city. if you check out this twitter page, which protesters say keeps a tally, 3,200 occupiers have been taken in. but when officers aren't around, what is occupy life life? well, cnn went in-depth, embedding himself at the site where occupy originated, zuccotti park. >> i'm going to be here until i die. i don't know how long some other people are going to be here. >> mike check. >> mike check. >> mike check. >> it's falling apart. see the apple floating over there? ♪ >> do you guys need towels? >> yeah. >> all right. >> thank you. ♪ >> so i'm charging this deep cycle marine battery by peddling
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this stationary bike. then we're taking the deep cycle marine batteries all around the park wherever we need power. >> i hate capitalism, as i eat a burger king burger. but they criticize the cuban revolution, said the revolution eats its own children. if the revolution can eat its own children, i can eat burger king. >> help people. everybody's, why are we here? why are we here? what are we going to do? why are we here? i don't know. maybe it's to help people out. ♪ >> it's all volunteer here. see a need, fill it. >> we're going to eat right now. it's dinner time. i would like everything. >> mike check. >> mike check. >> hi, everybody. >> hi, everybody. >> welcome to general assembly. >> the nyc general assembly has been going on since 7:00 and
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it's currently 10:40 now. it will probably continue until about midnight. as usual. >> good morning. it's about 8:30, zuccotti park. lower manhattan. i just woke up out of my bed roll, had a little breakfast and i'm ready to occupy. >> if they shut it down today, what would i do? i'd pack up my stuff and we'd both to my girl's parents' house for a minute and just look for work and live life all over again, you know? it's going to be a good day today. it's always a good day. got to make the best out of it. >> so jared is here. you survived. >> i survived.
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building near zuccotti park. we kid because we love -- when i say what does it smell like? seriously, that's what people want to know. what's the hygiene like for people who have been there 40 some days now? >> it's good and bad. when you walk around, there are people cleaning up and doing they best to keep it clean, at least the general area. i did go into a couple of tents and i'll be honest, they smelled awful. i mean, the one tent, there was probably 10 or 12 people living in. it smelled terrible. >> this is really weird, this is the longest time i've been outside new york in a while. usually i would be in new york and go down to see it. you can't, when you're walking up, it's not like -- the odor. >> i didn't feel like, oh, i'm getting close, i can smell it. it's not like that. but, you know, peek inside a tent and you'll wish you hadn't. >> okay. do you have new video of your experience. this one gives a look at -- gives you some idea of how people are earning money. let's take a look at that one.
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>> you can't spoil my plan, not batman, superman, you, man, i'm a pacman. i'm eating all i can. this is how i'm supporting myself. i sell a politically motivated collection of books. i'm here for $5 if you'd like to support the cause today or if you really like to read, i have a collection of short stories that i sell for $10. >> asking occupiers for donations is not the most lucrative option. how are people getting by, making money, getting food? >> one gentleman i saw walked around with a giant cauldron and ask for donations. another guy i spoke to, during the daytime he pan handles on the subway. i said, how much money can you make doing this? oh, just 40 or 50 bucks, i just tell people i have diabetes. i said, do you? he said, no, my mom does. i have to be cautious saying that. you don't want to paint with a broad brush that this is everybody that's there, but he is there. >> okay. all right. another interview of this man
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you found living in a tent with ten others for the last 40 some days. here it is. >> how much longer do you think you can keep this up? >> don't worry. we're staying here. >> you're not going anywhere? >> nope. >> there's no plans to go -- >> if this ever ends, i guess that's when we leave. >> they're going to stay through the harsh winter weather in new york city. it gets cold in new york. >> yeah. some of them said, well, we made it through this storm and it's inspired us so we can make it. it was one storm. and one night. and it's hard to say. those living conditions were not good. they were cold. there's one -- i don't know if you saw it in the first video. tls there was a pool of water in this guy's tent and a apple was in it. >> what do you think? you were there. come on. >> what do i think? i think it was -- it was fun. kind of. it was sort of interesting. it's like a fraternity, you never want to do it again. you know?
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>> all right. interesting stuff. thank you very much. we appreciate it. a giant lego man, mysteriously washes ashore. incredible pictures of a python eating a deer. those stories are coming up. tuck this away in the not to bright parent file. there's apparently a group of moms and dads that are giving their kids candy covered in strangers' saliva. i'm not kidding. it has to do with chickenpox. sm. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thanks to spark, owning my own business has never been more rewarding. [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet? this guy's amazing. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has
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okay. remember this bizarre image, the lego man figure, recently appeared on a florida beach, but where it came from has been a mystery. until now. jacqui jeras has a possible break in the identity of the lego man. >> oh my gosh. >> in tonight's saturday night mysteries. >> we have to work on some theme music. i know. lego man. how cool is that? it's like the dream of every 7-year-old boy. right? >> all right. >> walking down the beach and there's this giant lego guy standing right there. right? oh, come on. who doesn't love legos? did you not love legos? >> i love legos. >> let's start from the beginning real quick then for those of you just catching up. this was a week ago on tuesday. siesta key, florida, right in sarasota, this 8 foot call, 100 pound lego guy happens to show up. everybody is like, where did it come from? who put it there? the theory at the time was, guess what, lego land was open in orlando. so, they're like, oh, a
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publicity stunt, that must be what happened. not so much. >> i was in sarasota a couple minutes ago. i didn't get to meet lego man on the beach. >> he's at the sheriffs department now. you can see, okay, on the front of his shirt it says no real than you are. on the back, you can see it, ego leonard. so if you google ego leonard, you will get to a website that's all in dutch so you can't translate most of it. but apparently somebody figured out that the url for this thing is registered to the e-mail of a dutch artist. and his name is leon curr. he was then asked, did you do this? he didn't say no. but he didn't say yes. either. and apparently he was there. sarasota has an annual, the chalk festival. >> just washed up ashore across the ocean? >> i didn't think -- there's the website. i don't think it quite made the trip all the way from the netherlands all the way over here, don. >> that would be quite some trip. >> kind of fun, hey. until somebody claims it, it
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stays in police custy for 90 days and if nobody claims it the guy who found it first gets to keep it. he says he's going to put it on ebay. >> what is that? >> story number two. be patient. >> yes, ma'am. i'm sorry. >> be patient. story number two, we'll get to next. do you like oysters? a fan of oysters? >> yes. >> well, there's a big shortage. there's been a big dieoff of the east bay oysters. have you heard of this? escambia bay, east bay in pensacola, florida. apparently it's been such a bad situation that they've brought in some state experts to research and find out. there's been a lot of speculation. people are saying, could this have something to do with the oil spill that happened there? what's going on that all these -- they're seeing just a fraction once they started harvesting these in october that normally they'd get somewhere between 500 and 1,000 pounds every time they go and grab them. guess how much they're getting a day? >> how many.
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>> like not even 100. that's what they're lucky to get. researchers have gone in there and done testing. unfortunately the results are inconclusive. they've been able to rule out things like environmental problems. it's not the oil spill. they've been able to rule out disease. they don't know for sure. they're hoping to have more answers in the next week. a lot of the suppliers here, they're kind of telling us they think it's going to be bad for maybe four to five years before they're able to restore some of these oysters beds. >> i hope it's much better. i love oysters. i'm from the gulf coast. do we have time for story number three? >> i think we do. >> do we? >> we have to say this story is not for the squeamish. did you hear about the python in the florida everglades that ate a deer? this thing weighed like 139 pounds. it's 16 feet long. and i just kind of -- you look at the size of the head and think how does this thing get in there? i wanted to use my skull to explain that a snake's jaw is different than a human jaw. you know how we're connected
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here? >> uh-huh. >> a snake's is open and there's just a very elastic ligament in there. it allows it to move independently and they're able to just kind of jimmy their jaw then around the side of this -- >> i'm changing the story. this head was found in a python. >> but it could. >> this very head. >> if it can swallow a 76 pound deer -- don. >> oh my gosh. it wasn't. i'm kidding. >> it could swallow an adult. they've been known to swallow alligators, too. >> i'm sorry. i made that up. thank you. strange mysteries. >> it could happen to you. coming up, vermont's governor says look the other way when it comes to illegal immigrants. we'll show you why. and parents are given saliva covered candy to their kids all in the name of chickenpox. those stories in two minutes. don't laugh at me.
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♪ democrat yawney dupri is the first african-american to win a major party nomination for governor of mississippi. if he wins he would be the first black candidate to win state office since reconstruction. mississippi is a deep red republican state. can he pull it off? i traveled to hattiesburg to find out. ♪ >> if you thought that johnny dupri for governor campaign would be celebrating except for johnny dupri. >> i got all the fay sayres you can't do it because. >> couldn't win the primary because he's a black man in a state stigmatized by racism, because he didn't have nearly as
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much money to spend as his white republican peanut, lieutenant governor phil bryant. >> you can fill in the blanks. >> but primary voters made history by making johnny the first african-american ever to have a real chance of becoming the governor of mississippi. >> it's awesome, isn't it? isn't it awesome? we live in a place call the america that allows things like that to happen that have never happened about of. isn't that awesome? >> is it rerealistic where not much distinguishes one candidate from another. they disagree whether voters should show i.d. at the polls. those twos ideas aren't enough to motivate voters according to professor joseph parker. >> most white voters in mississippi vote for the white candidate and most black voters vote for the black governor. >> he says to win as governor, johnny would have to get all of the black votes and a third of the white. he did in town when he became
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the first black mayor of hattiesburg. can he do it statewide? >> if he does, it will be like moses rolling back the red sea. >> i'm here to talk to you about color, green. >> the only color he wants to address is money. something his state, the nation's poorest desperately needs, something his opponent has a lot of. outspending dupri 7-1. but dupri is confident. >> i have a 100% chance of not winning if i wasn't in the race. but i got a 50% chance of winning because i'm in the race. >> reporter: dupri has proven the plos. the pundits and the naysayers wrong before. but with this much at stake, can he do it again? >> election day is this coming tuesday. november 8th. we will be watching. a big issue in some elections, illegal immigration. at several states, as several states impose tough crack downs, governor peter shim lynn has
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issued a new policy for state police barring them from arresting people simply for not having proper papers. >> vermont farmers can't survive without workers from outside of america. that's just the way it is. we've got to keep our dairy farms strong. so we have always had a policy in vermont where we kind of looked the other way as much as we can. i just want to make sure that that's what we're doing. >> the governor says immigration issues should be handled by federal agents. a group of parents are reportedly infecting their kids with the chicken pox virus. phoenix affiliate kpho uncovered a facebook group dedicated to trading live pox viruss. members with infected children are reportedly sending infected lollipops and saliva through the mail to parents who want their children to acquire a natural immunity to the disease. doctors call the practice dangerous saying complications can be serious. plus, some videotape of steve jobs has surfaced.
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bring it up. cain didn't like that one bit. >> you all listen, then you all just listen for 30 seconds. i will explain this one time. >> could you sit down? >> no, no. >> it's time for us to trade places, everybody. so mr. cain -- it's time for us to trade places. >> you all, i was going to do something that my staff told me not to do and try to respond. what i'm saying is this. we are getting back on message. >> thank you, mr. cain. >> end of story. back on message. read all of the other accounts. read all of the other accounts where everything has been answered in a story. we're getting back on message. okay? >> politico first reported the report claiming two women accuses cain of inappropriate behavior when he was the head of the national rtaurant association. cain has denied any wrongdoing. a
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